happiness
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
happy/ˈhapi/
▶adjective (happier, happiest)
- 1 feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.
■ willing to do or accept something.
- 2 fortunate and convenient: a happy coincidence.
- 3 [in combination] informal inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random: trigger-happy.
– phrases
(as) happy as a sandboy (or Brit. Larry or N. Amer. a clam) extremely happy. [prob. orig. denoting a boy hawking sand for sale.]
happy hunting ground a place where success or enjoyment is obtained. [orig. referring to the optimistic hope of American Indians for good hunting grounds in the afterlife.]
(as) happy as a sandboy (or Brit. Larry or N. Amer. a clam) extremely happy. [prob. orig. denoting a boy hawking sand for sale.]
happy hunting ground a place where success or enjoyment is obtained. [orig. referring to the optimistic hope of American Indians for good hunting grounds in the afterlife.]
– derivatives
happily adverb,
happiness noun.
happily adverb,
happiness noun.
'happiness' also found in these Oxford entries:
ananda
- beatific
- Benthamism
- best
- bliss
- cheerful
- congratulate
- content
- contented
- ecstasy
- Eden
- elation
- eudaemonic
- eudaemonism
- euphoria
- exaltation
- feel-good
- felicity
- fool's paradise
- fulfil
- future
- glad
- Golconda
- golden age
- happy
- joy
- joyous
- jubilation
- mass noun
- nirvana
- promised land
- ray
- self-love
- slap-happy
- sword of Damocles
- utilitarianism
- welfare
- well-wisher
- wish
